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The Walt Disney Company is wrapped up in a public battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Though DeSantis allegedly warned the company and its CEO, Bob Chapek, not to get involved in Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, protest from the LGBTQIA+ community inspired The Walt Disney Company to publicly denounce the controversial law.
According to NPR, the “Don’t Say Gay” law “prohibits any instruction about sexuality or gender between kindergarten and third grade, or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
Down the road from Walt Disney World in Central Florida, Universal Orlando Resort chose not to comment publicly on the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
One former Universal employee took to Twitter this Sunday to explain why he quit. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Twitter user @TaranTrinnaman asked a Universal executive what she was planning to do for Pride Month in the wake of the “Don’t Say Gay” law:
So I quit Universal last night so I can now share this: during a mandatory company meeting last month with the CEO, I asked her point blank what the company was doing in the wake of the silence to the “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” bill and would do to honor LGBTQ employees & guests during Pride month after their silence. Basically what was the company I’d joined that promised diversity and had a memorial for the victims of Pulse going to do this...
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